This article is written by Mahesh Mamadapur, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular of this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

With some apprehensions and some anxiety, I put forward my first effort at writing an article on this blog. As has been mentioned by Sudhir ji in the previous post, I have been active in the comments space since September 2012. However, the delay in the first post coming up here, has not been from my side. ;) This first post I had written almost a year ago, and sent to Atul ji in June last year. For some reasons, maybe it got lost in the pile of emails he receives, which he assures me, is the case.
But you can imagine my state of mind. I was thinking that maybe the write up was not good enough, and hence it is ignored. So I just kept quiet about it. Then, this discussion on the 10K celebrations started, with the message from Sudhir ji, inviting articles for this special series. In email exchanges that followed, things got clear, and I decided to rework and resend the same post. I request friends and readers to understand my difficulty. I don’t understand what exactly to write for a song and hence this delay of being represented with a post contributor. Hopefully, I will be able to contribute more, now that a start has been made.

I am glad for being part of this special celebration series and the opportunity to post my first write up. Today, I bring to the attention of friends and readers, this kind of forgotten song in the voice of Mukesh. This song was reportedly created for the film ‘Andaz’, but then was not included in the film.

Much has been written on this blog regarding the iconic songs from the film ‘Andaz’ (1949) and the large number of songs in it, to the extent that it has been commented that some songs were excluded to give some breathing space for dialogues. The film has 10 songs officially listed. On our blog, in the movie-wise category, the film has been marked red, and already includes 2 unreleased songs from the same film (one of them is now reassigned to Anokhi Ada).

However it seems the cup of songs from this film has not yet over flown completely. I did check each song from this movie confirm that the song under consideration had not been earlier posted or commented by someone. In that process, I happened to stumble across this yet another unreleased song sung by a singer whose four numbers dominated the songs in this movie. Yes we are talking about Mukesh.

It’s a pity why such a great composition was not included in this or some other film. It’s a typical song of sadness by Mukesh. Incidentally on very close listening to the second stanza; the words “……miley hain ghair se….” definitely reminds us as to how close Mukesh was successful in sounding like KL Saigal.

This song can again be included in ‘Andaz’ as unreleased or in the NFS category of Mukesh. All said and done it definitely deserves to be brought to the notice of avid listeners of old movie songs.

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11 Responses to "Sunaaun kya main gham apna"

@ Mahesh ji – Congratulations again and thanks for this nice post with a rare song. though i cannot listen the composition now i enjoyed the poetry by Majrooh Saab. and since Andaaz was a love-triangle story (sorry not got to watch it) the feelings are perfectly expressed for a ‘Aashiq’ …
thanks!

Welcome to the post contributor world, Maheshji. :-) Good to read this opening post.
And it is lovely to listen to this song too. Never heard it before. I love all the songs of Andaz (1949) – and even if this didn’t finally get into the final release, it could only be because of surfeit of songs.
Thanks for bringing this rare song to our notice. That is the beauty of this blog – I’ve discovered a lot of songs only thanks to this blog.